Spencer Hall and Jason Kirk Furloughed from Banner Society/Vox
This happened yesterday but I did not see anything posted about it.
Noted Michigan tattoo haver Spencer Hall and his trusted associate Jason Kirk have been furloughed for three months from Vox/Banner Society. I don’t personally understand the vagaries of online media during this pandemic but making these two free agents makes me think that it’s very unlikely they will be back at Banner Society when all of this ends.
I’d be all for a Paetreon/GoFundMe to have Spencer write his traditional start of the season long read on MGoBlog.
April 18th, 2020 at 10:10 AM ^
I honestly don't know who these two are.
April 18th, 2020 at 10:15 AM ^
how'd the cracker barrel date go with the new girl?
April 18th, 2020 at 12:18 PM ^
It was good.
She enjoy her fried chicken dinner with mashed potatoes, gravy and corn? Don't forget the banana pudding and sweet tea. Baby's got back.
April 18th, 2020 at 10:39 AM ^
I agree that a little more context never hurts.
Spencer Hall was the founder of college football blog (site?) Every Day Should Be Saturday (EDSBS.com). He's a funny writer and I hope he bounces back soon.
The weird Michigan tattoo came from a lost bet; I think it was on one of those fund-raising things but I don't remember for sure.
Jason Kirk is another college football writer who also did Shutdown Fullback (here) with Spencer.
April 18th, 2020 at 12:20 PM ^
Almost positive the tattoo was from EDSBS' annual fundraiser for some non-profit in Atlanta(?). One year the winning school got to be tattooed on Spencer. The Michigan money cannon won every year so a Michigan tattoo it was
after the money cannon went thermonuclear last year he added another Michigan related tattoo
April 18th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
The two of them, Ryan Nanni, and Holly Anderson also do the wildly popular Shutdown Fullcast, the world's Only College Football Podcast.
April 18th, 2020 at 10:20 AM ^
I can personally attest that online ad revenue is notably down during this time, which is understandable, since people have less money and are buying less stuff. But I'm only supporting myself (and luckily blogging is not my #1 source of income) instead of paying employees, health insurance, etc.
April 18th, 2020 at 10:39 AM ^
Meanwhile, my friend's side website is currently raking in cash because it's been featured in a few different large publications as something to do while stuck at home. (His site directs people to streams of Broadway shows.)
April 18th, 2020 at 11:05 AM ^
My YouTube channel is having the highest views I've ever had because of the online schooling going on but my ad revenue is about 30% lower from what it was in the fall. When less purchasing happens ad budgets get cut and that means less money per click or view.
April 18th, 2020 at 10:33 AM ^
I don't know if furlough works the same for everyone, but at my job, those who are furloughed are still being made whole. Whatever unemployment doesn't cover, my job is covering the rest. Plus they still have their health care. Other people I know will be made whole for those weeks they don't work, when they return from furlough.
Hopefully, these guys are in a similar situation.
I don’t think that’s the norm. Where we are the furlough basically gets you health care and a semi real promise of a job to come back to.
with 6,000,000 people losing their jobs every week it seems like a good deal.
April 18th, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
Brian's model of running MgoBlog has long struck me as the future of online media. Direct to a narrowly interested fanbase willing to pay for things (merch, HTTV, etc.). Locally and/or communally sponsored (businesses in the Ann Arbor/UM ecosystem sponsoring posts and the podcast).
Credit to Brian for boldly forging his own path on this front. While I'm sure the drop in ad revenue is hurting Mgo's bottom line right now, at least Brian is in charge of his own destiny on this.
It definitely seems as if local news and sports news will have to recreate itself in this model (either like NPR as a donor and sponsor supported not for profit for news or as a fanatic driven indy like MgoBlog or MenInBlazers). I guess the other model is popular national paid for like NYTimes, WaPo, or The Athletic.
Men in Blazers started under the ESPN umbrella, at Grantland, and is now with NBC.
I was thinking along the lines of the live podcast taping of theirs that I attended. Don't know if that was under the NBC umbrella or Maven (who I guess produces their podcast), but I was imagining that money may have gone straight to them.
I've never heard of these guys, but if they work for Vox, they probably deserved to be fired outright.
they're two of the most prolific college football writers on the internet (imo spencer is also the best, hands down)
Just an update on this. If you enjoy their stuff, they are collaborating on a Sci-Fi/Western mythology book https://gumroad.com/l/xwUYa